{"id":108047,"date":"2025-07-24T05:02:50","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T11:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps06.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/2025\/07\/24\/oelkers-reflects-on-national-county-convention-experience-20250723-0322-144308\/?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2025-07-24T05:08:46","modified_gmt":"2028-01-10T05:08:46","slug":"oelkers-reflects-on-national-county-convention-experience-20250723-0322-144308","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2025\/07\/24\/oelkers-reflects-on-national-county-convention-experience-20250723-0322-144308\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"Oelkers Reflects On National  County Convention Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roosevelt County Commissioner Gordon Oelkers recently returned from his first National Association of Counties (NACo) Convention, held this year in Philadelphia. As a first-time attendee, Commissioner  Oelkers said the experience was both informative and energizing\u2014 offering valuable insights into how counties across the nation are tackling  shared challenges and shaping policy together.<br \/>\n\t  \u201cThe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[95],"tags":[],"news-destination":[13],"news-source":[12],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108047"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108047"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108184,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108047\/revisions\/108184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108047"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=108047"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=108047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}